The Hugh Hewitt Show

Biography

Hugh Hewitt is a law professor and broadcast journalist whose nationally syndicated radio show is heard in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday afternoon. Hewitt is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, and has been teaching Constitutional Law at Chapman University Law School since it opened in 1995.

Hewitt is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network, and MSNBC, and has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times. He has received three Emmys for his work as co-host of the groundbreaking Life & Times program, a nightly news and public affairs program that aired on the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, KCET, from 1992 until 2007. Hewitt also conceived and hosted the 1996 PBS series Searching for God in America. He is the author of eight books, including two New York Times bestsellers. His most recent books are Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That is Changing Your World and A Mormon in the White House?

Hewitt is best known as the host of his radio show, which has an audience estimated at more than 2 million listeners every week. Since its debut in July of 2000, Hewitt has conducted groundbreaking interviews with government officials from both parties and widely respected analysts, authors and pundits. In a 2006 profile of Hewitt for The New Yorker, the dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism told his readers that Hewitt was "the most influential conservative you have never heard of."

Hewitt writes daily for his blog, Hugh Hewitt.com, which is among the most visited political blogs in the U.S. He is also the executive editor of Townhall.com.

Hewitt served for nearly six years in the Reagan administration in a variety of posts, including Assistant Counsel in the White House and Special Assistant to two Attorneys General. Since returning to California in 1989 to oversee the construction of the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Hewitt has served as a member of the California Arts Council, the South Coast Air Management District and the Orange County Children and Families Commission. He and his wife in live in Orange County.